There are not enough new tests and treatments in the pipeline to tackle the growing spread of drug-resistant bacteria, the World Health Organization warned Thursday.

Some bacterial-infecting viruses use ‘sponges’ to mop up defence molecules, but bacteria can fight back by responding when a ...

Rolling off its acquisition of "Pocoyo," the kids media company Animaj has boarded another iconic children's brand, 'Maya the ...

Physicians have relied on a class of antibiotics called polymyxins to fight potentially life-threatening Gram-negative ...

Following this, bacteria was then successfully infected with a number of ... The results could then be used to fight bacterial infections in, for example, farming or even gene therapy. Samuel King, a ...

CLEVELAND — Growing up in Hawaii with its extensive variety and plants and animals gave a young girl her sense of curiously and led her down her path to becoming a world-renowned biologist. Now, she’s ...

Studies have shown that more rainfall, higher humidity, and higher temperatures can drive increases in Legionella bacteria in ...

An international team of scientists led by researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS), Imperial College London and the University of Cologne have discovered that microbes associated ...

Scientists may have found a natural way to fight red tide blooms along the Southwest Florida coast. Researchers discovered that certain bacteria can either fuel or collapse Karenia brevis, the ...

If Wenjun Zhang has her way, no one will ever have to brush or floss again. Zhang, a UC Berkeley professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, is trying to distinguish the healthy bacteria in ...

The Florida Department of Health reported one new Vibrio vulnificus, commonly referred to as "flesh-eating" bacteria, in Escambia County, bringing the total cases up to three. Another new case was ...